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The orbital strikes are effectively unlimited in most cases. I like that this game isn't afraid to give you powerful toys. The devs balance the game around your weapons, not the other way around.

Plus, general execution is top notch and the game is very well optimized; I was getting solid framerates with an i7-4790 and a 1080
You’re so welcome. Thank you for sharing it with me. Tell a friend.

Some more of her work:

How to Be at Home

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OT40Rmjwd-Q

Tanya Davis performs at Words Aloud 9

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BUGmdscw2aM
I have not bought a EA or Ubisoft game in years on PC due to stuff like this. They are not worth the hassle.
The Evolution of Sensors in Automotive Applications
But if you for instance use MS SQL and the uniqueidentifier type, sorted UUIDv7 is not sorted im the database because MS SQL swapsnthe bytes around. So ULID (stored as binary(16)) is an advantage in that case to avoid making that mistake.

I really like that ULID looks differentt from UUIDv4. UUIDv7 is something sorted that on the surface looks like it will be random and is mixed with random IDs etc..
NMFCList.com is a resourceful website dedicated to providing detailed information and tools related to the National Motor Freight Classification (NMFC). It features a comprehensive NMFC code lookup tool, enabling users to find specific freight classes necessary for freight shipping. The site also offers a Bill of Lading generator, a FedEx zone locator, and a glossary to help users understand relevant shipping terms. For added convenience, users can install a Chrome extension directly from the site.
> I don't support either side because both are wrong.

That's only true if you view the "Israeli government" and "Hamas" as the only sides that exist. That is not the case; you don't need to choose either of them.

Now, of course it's true that everyone has legitimate grievances here for all sorts of reasons, an it's also true that forever banging on about every little thing anyone has ever done wrong will lead to another 100 years of suffering. But that doesn't mean we (broad international community) can't and shouldn't try. Even if it fails, I think it was worth the effort to try.
Tough look for the "only democracy in the middle east" if it can only get compared to a Hamas led government.
Allen clued Gates in on the upcoming microcomputing revolution when the Altair made the cover of Popular Electronics in 1975. And there are stories about both writing code on planes while on their way to sales meetings. So Gates arguably combined Woz’s technical chops with Jobs’ business acumen (even though I always admired the latter’s sensibility and vision more).
You're right, this is absolutely something that needs to be figured out. People buy apps, get an update, and dislike the re-design.

I think this is a place where legislation should probably be explicitly hands-off, I could see something in legislating differently between access and usability, i.e. allowing apps to change pretty much however they like as long as users are fundamentally able to access the same product as before. Users wouldn't like this, but it would protect companies in some way.
If your team hasn't engineered in monotonically increasing distributed clocks, the results of sorting are only partly correct. I'd rather not promote an option we can't rely on.
Unfortunately, whenever anything is being posted on this topic, we get to see so many comments such as this.

> It seems almost certain to me there has to be some conspiracy amongst US publications to conceal certain information around Israeli-Palestinian conflict and history

No evidence was provided, just another unfounded conspiracy theory. What can we take away from this?
So in South East Asia they are nice to minorities? That's nice.
Growing up - we had a lot of programs externally to encourage us to read. I wonder if kids still have the same kind of things

For example, we had things like a Six Flags reading program, Pizza Hut Book It for free pizza, and hand picked Texas Bluebonnet Books. We also had book fairs.
They have physical copies of the PC version?
A business cannot read a book, and your machine learning model is not given human rights.
Sure. But even if you want to hire at about 1 women per 4 men you would need to actively do so. I.E. create a hiring policy in which she would be selected instead of one of the other equally qualified men.
I see your point, I wasn't trying to say that all updates should be prevented, but more that I think legislation is needed to categorise different types of updates, and then set requirements around each.

For example, I think it could define a "security update" and require security updates for the reasonable lifetime of the software/device (the EU already requires warranty repairs for reasonable device lifetime). It could define "content" and make clear the expectations around removing access to content when licences expire or how companies must communicate timelines to buyers. I imagine it would explicitly not cover all updates though as for almost any update there will be some category of users who perceive it to be "hostile" because they don't like it, but I think that's just how software evolves and not something worth changing.
It's a crude tool but most developers aren't particularly responsive to anything save for what the moneypigs... I mean publisher... wants
So this is the first discovery of an extraterrestrial species right, because that's pretty neat.
What does the money even do for him at that age? He’s not gonna live long enough to enjoy spending that much
Garmin watches do that.

I'm mostly doing dips pushups pullups and abs, and it counts each rep.

The simplest form is starting a generic strength activity, where pressing the lap button moves to "rest" and displays a quick optional "Hey I counted this, fix the count" thing before resuming to the next exercise with the lap button. Once you're done with your workout and it synced to the phone both each exercise type and reps can be fixed after the fact.

You can also set up more structured, scripted workouts with exercises known beforehand, which slightly improves rep counting (otherwise it's very generic and approximate)
Always worth giving a shoutout to the "Scalability! But at what COST?" paper (pdf https://www.frankmcsherry.org/assets/COST.pdf)

We offer a new metric for big data platforms, COST, or the Configuration that Outperforms a Single Thread. The COST of a given platform for a given problem is the hardware configuration required before the platform outperforms a competent single-threaded implementation. COST weighs a system’s scalability against the overheads introduced by the system, and indicates the actual performance gains of the system, without rewarding systems that bring substantial but parallelizable overheads.
Asians aren't counted as "diversity" either. This is why they're referred to as "an inconvenient minority" in the context of DEI.
That seems a bit misleading. According to Wikipedia, there were two founders, one of whom worked in the Intelligence Corps until 1988.
Interesting take on the origin of the performance review bs, but I was hoping this would add something to the discussion.

In the current state of things the process is heavily defended by the HR department and most ICs want to have an "objective" way to be promoted and have a raise, when there's very little in this to be "objective", making it almost impossible to dismantle.

In more than 25 years in the industry, I haven't been once in a company that solved this conundrum and makes me want to quit being a manager.

A good book I've read that I can suggest if you're painfully struggling with this, is "Abolishing Performance Appraisals"
On each individual level yes it is warranted like singular reviews or a few comments around. Due to number of concerned customers it does get big and as such grows to rather big uproar. But for me adding extra step I don't need justifies a review and a few comments. Not that I ever bought the game.
I didn't think having to create a PSN account was that bad to be honest. I'd have preferred them to back down about the NProtect GameGuard rootkit that comes with the game.
I believe RT actually is blocked from operating broadcast or radio services in America (although not cable services, since those are exempt — only free-to-air broadcast coverage is included in the legal restrictions), which is why it never operated free-to-air broadcast or radio services in the U.S., unlike in other countries.
I just wish that people actually would do something about the (far worse imo) requirement to give the game kernel access for anti cheat. But nobody gives a shit about that, so they're never going to change it. It's not really acceptable in my opinion for any game to have these rootkits, but it's especially bad for a co-op game where you're going to be playing most of the time with people you know.
This is a great read.

I came to similar conclusions a few months after my first job, carefully introspecting why I felt like shit working there, and introspecting that and understanding what I have to offer to society, and what people expect out of me. It has been very useful in dealing with people and advancing my career.
you’re awesome!! I’ll test if i can ditch loopback by rogue amoeba for your piece of software :)
You would just need to come up with a way to pick a point at random uniformly from an unbounded space.
The code looks good, there seems to be some surprises with files that use "#include <stdio.h>" or similar. The include-lines are the ones the errors refer to - but since those files come with the compiler distribution I'd have expected their contents to be well-formed.

I removed the includes from a few files, changed FILEs to ints, and added "#define EOF -1", etc, which let some more simple code compile & link. But it felt like those changes shouldn't have been necessary.

I guess the good news is the compiler ran without me having to add any new CP/M syscalls/bdos functions to my emulator - unlike hisoft which required that I implement "T_GET" (Get date and time) and a couple of other functions I'd been missing such as F_SIZE (For getting a file size).
Except for an huge outlier there in week 40 of 2023 I don’t see anything alarming there.

Scrolling down to “Map of z-scores by country” and moving the slider to week 40 of 2023, it seems the outlier is fully caused by Israel’s data.

Because of that, I think its cause isn’t Covid, but the 2023 Hamas attack on Israel (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2023_Hamas-led_attack_on_Israe...)

Checking https://euromomo.eu/bulletins/2023-40 (“The recent week's estimates for Israel should be interpreted with caution due to significant uncertainty surrounding the delay adjustment.”) and https://euromomo.eu/bulletins/2023-41 (“Israel is experiencing an increase in excess mortality which is linked to the current war in the country.”) supports that idea.
Great point. That sounds a bit like compression.
Like, what is better? GUIs are hard, the old way was duplicating state at the ”view” and the “model” layer, resulting in millions of bugs. The core idea of react v=f(m) is sound, and is the correct approach. Also, react itself is not even that complex.
I just knew it'd be Manchester!
I think OPC-UA uses http, and there are OPC-UA servers to talk to Just about every type of device, so maybe it is already possible.

I was looking at the canvas element to do an electrical single line diagram.
Show HN: My LinkedIn AI Tool made $30k last month (Lifetime Deal)
I launched Dottypost - an AI Tool for LinekdIn audience building. Never thought I'd reach $30k a month in LTD.

I'd love to get feedback/suggestion from the community.
Meta does not sell personal data, they just use it for ads
That’s exactly what I would want. My phone is set to a certain locale and language. By default I would want my apps to appear in that language, and websites. I may want to set a particular website to another language, and I’d appreciate a setting in the site that does it, but it should respect my default first. Up a level, if I want all websites in a different language than my OS, I’d go digging for a setting in the browser. But by default, the entire stack should respect the setting I configured at the top.
Medium sized Texan :)
It's in the title, but the abstract doesn't mention anything specifically about drug resistance, just adaptation/ mutation in general.

Unless I missed it.

I think it might be a (bad journalistic attempt as a) general descriptor for the species/ strain of bacteria studied, but maybe I'm reading it wrong.
> The idea is that it's irresponsible to diffuse the limited amount of effort by launching your own desktop environment project rather than contributing your talents to one of KDE or GNOME.

This is totally wrong.

The free software world is as great as it is precisely because everyone is free to start their own project without asking for permission.

And I don't think you meant it this way, but can we please not make people feel irresponsible for pursuing projects they find interesting? That's an easy way to kill a new developer's interest, motivation, and enthusiasm. And they're sure not going to pursue projects they don't find interesting.

If you have an idea for a project you want to work on: please go and do it! I don't care if there are already dozens of alternatives. Go forth and create. Maybe you'll make the new best version of the thing, maybe you won't. But you definitely won't if you don't try. And even if your version is no good, if you cultivate a habit of making things you want to make then you'll have the best chances, and at least in the end you'll have lived a life of creation rather than idle consumption.
There's also a thing called authoritarian judge-king-dictators who are above the law and have run out of shits to give about your rights. In Brazil for example there's this one supreme court judge who has threatened to apply totally arbitrary hourly fines worth tens to hundreds of thousands of dollars to anyone enabling such "subterfuge", as he calls it. At this point I wouldn't be surprised if Brazil went full China.
What drives me nuts is people storing uuids in databases as hex strings. They're bytes, and if you do it right, even the type 1's are lexigraphically sortable.
I did not read the whole thing, I read far enough to realize the methodology was garbage. The article basically says anyone ever associated with Hamas or resisting the IDF is a legitimate military target. Let's try switching that around. Anyone who served in the IDF or spoke positively of a successful attack of Israel against Palestine is a legitimate military target and not a journalist? No, this is obviously nonsense. I'm pretty sure at this point, there's almost nobody left in Gaza that hasn't said a few epithets towards Israel... that doesn't make them military targets.

Al Jazeera getting banned tracks with the current Israel government not being a huge fan of journalism.
> What about the fact that X.org itself is unmaintained and falling apart?

Is it? Seems to work just fine. Not all that is new is good. Not all that is old is bad.
>Who allows these bad decisions to happen in the first place?

The people who make them. Usually middle managers with some metric they want to show off to justify a bonus or promotion, not someone connected at all to the creation or usage of a thing, just one of the somewhat useless phase transition between stockholder and individual contributor.
Show HN: PromptML, a new markup language for writing structured AI prompts
Hi friends, let me show you a new language I designed for writing AI Prompts as Code (APaC).
Think it like Terraform for prompting. Write in PromptML once, and template the parsed object to any flavor of LLM.

It is open-sourced and contributions are very welcome.
Berners-Lee created the WWW in 1991. Netscape 1.0 launched in December 1994. Bill Gates’s big Internet turnaround came in 1995. By 1999, IE was the dominant browser and Netscape was going broke.

Things moved so fast at the time, it left the impression that Microsoft was slow to react. But actually everything happened within just a few years.
Do you say the same of all photoshop alternatives or all different AI companies doing the same stuff...or even Apple building their own OS instead of providing their computers with Windows?
Cassandra seemed to have no problem using type1 UUIDs for this.
The "modernized version", available as a font file, was modernized too much.[1]
It doesn't look period.

The H.P. Lovecraft Society has some 19th century fonts, if you need them.[2] Those were recovered from old documents.

[1] https://typespec.co.uk/doves-type/

[2] https://www.hplhs.org/resources.php
> How come the current semi-popular opinion on HN happens to be pro-censorship, when HN community is against censorship in every other situation?

The answer to most questions like this is: there are many different users on HN. You might think the "general consensus" of HN is one thing, but you're talking to a specific person commenting on a specific article, who has their own views, not to a generic "HN user".

And note that different threads will have a different makeup of users clicking on it. E.g. I wouldn't necessarily be interested in a random "censorship" thread, but this one is about Israel, so (as an Israeli) I am interested. Since this logic probably extends to other users as well, that will give the thread a specific bias, depending on its subject matter and framing.
Wow, I hadn't heard this before l, and it made me pretty furious:

> An important scholarly intervention within a particular field of academic research, you might say. But Prof Fryer has now revealed that at the time the research was conducted, Harvard colleagues familiar with the results urged him not to publish his findings, telling him that he’d ruin his career.

This whole article is sad and disgusting, especially because, as a result of this research, Prof Fryer was proposing some actual interventions to reduce biased applications of non-lethal use-of-force, but because the data didn't fit the prevailing narrative, it was attacked. Just gross.
Turns out we had the Fermi paradox wrong all this time, it's not the all intelligent space faring civilizations we had to fear, but space MRSA.
> You need to ingest the data you have, and you need to draw a picture.

Works well for one chart from one dataset. But you want more than one chart, and pretty soon you find yourself repeating code, so you create functions, and you start thinking about data bindings and before you know it you’ve invented a generalized pipeline (or a buggy mess, depending how much forethought you put into it).
I'm a big fan of huge rocks. Very effective. There are a lot of them. Highly entertaining on YouTube.

100% effective at reducing people driving over the edge or corners of property.
Heres a similar example, apparently a french cannon used as bollard on the south bank. https://www.historic-uk.com/HistoryMagazine/DestinationsUK/F...
I didn't get the sense the author is wishing for motorists to die; he's taken the (in my view quite reasonable) stance that the person operating the dangerous machine has a greater responsibility and that pedestrians who are not endangering anyone else shouldn't shoulder the risk for what they do.
1.58 bits https://old.reddit.com/r/LocalLLaMA/comments/1bpa6ol/unoffic...
Or you can just store the UUIDs as bytes like the almighty intended.
Neat that jQuery gets so much. I guess they have a ton of stuff on jQuery still (and probably will forever).
Also lots of the project ingredients were not really market commodities. There could have been a lot more exchange of money involved if eg there had been a market for weapons grade uranium/plutonium or moon rockets and staff had been paid FAANG salaries.

(There's of course a big opportunity cost in employing the best physicists and biggest r&d investments in nukes - eg solar energy and grid storage could have been here decades earlier in an alternative scenario.)
Alternatively, you're reversing the causality. As such fallacies have become borderline ubiquitous in many relevant aspects of life, greater appreciation and understanding of what's happening led to the emergence of language that's not only more figurative and visual, but also more precise. Because while all motte and bailey fallacies will be false equivocations, not all false equivocations will be motte and bailey fallacies.

Engaging in a genocidal action and then claiming it's self defense when scrutinized is a textbook motte and bailey fallacy. Claiming that people who oppose said genocide are supporters of fringe radical elements within the genocided, is a false equivocation, but not a motte and bailey fallacy. Indeed, you could make your exact argument about association fallacies, or a wide array of other fallacies for that matter - as most tend to involve false equivocation at some point.
This is not a hot take, but uninformed one. They sold a game with PSN requirement in the countries where PSN was not available at all. You would just lose access to your game after 4 months, how is that a slight inconvenience? It's a pretty big legal mess they almost got themselves into.

There are probably times when you could make an argument like this, but this isn't one of them. A company pulled something very anti-consumer, and the review system was instrumental in holding them accountable.
I don't understand why these are part of Unicode. Were they ever used as part of text? Why Pac-man but no Donkey Kong? What is the logical basis for this set?
weekend / Friday changes are really the pandora's box. It's really enticing to publish on Friday because usually it's a slower business day, and you have time to really monitor the publishing / do the talk to make decision, but it comes with a big risk that you won't feel the impact until Monday.
There is no such thing.

Sometimes the algolians are called general-purpose programming languages, as opposed to SQL, functional programming languages, logic programming, and so on. Sometimes anything it's used as an opposite to domain-specific languages.
TSIDs are basically type1 UUID's without the MAC address, no?
Nope. It’s all Schadenfreude. I want peoples bad video game opinions to be punished, and it’s happening in this case! Yippie!
Yes, but just like Stanford, you probably can't say the word "American" without getting summoned to a disciplinary hearing and asking your landlord to have you evicted ah la San Francisco's way of doing things...
tl;dr: X11R6 is very healthy on NetBSD and has active contributors

from the same blog: Wayland is also approaching healthy on NetBSD and has active contributors

There is no reason to get bent out of shape. NetBSD as a project has commitments to desktop support and seems to be living up to those commitments very well.
It seems obvious to me that authoritarian regimes have much more corruption than democratic ones because in a dictatorship there is no transparency and therefore corruption goes undetected. That means that power and wealth gets concentrated into hands of a small elite. There is less true innovation. What makes things cheaper is the progress of democracy.
I don't think this is a hot take at all, it's matches my understanding. One of the reasons language itself is so difficult (miscommunication, etc) is we have a mostly similar but not identical "compression table" of ideas that words map to, and why we spend so much time aligning on terms, to ensure correct "decompression".

We need compression because internally cognition has a very "wide" set of inputs/outputs (basically meshed), but we only have a serial audio link with relatively narrow bandwidths, so the whole thing that allows us to even discuss this is basically a neat evolutionary hack.